Fair points.
PDP without any assessment or feedback would be difficult in any case.
I think the issue here is whether the benefits that learners get from PDP,
along with feedback and free-standing assessment is enough to motivate
learners to do PDP in the absence of it being tied in (possibly arbitrarily?)
as a requirement of another course of study. This includes the question
of what it is that they feel they get "in return" for the effort expended
in PDP.
Many people write things which aren't part of anything leading to a
qualification - what is the motivation there? What do they get in return?
Regards
Simon
At 08:03 2005-02-28, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I think both perspectives are true.
>
>I think PDP will need to be assessed, but it shouldn't worry people that
>somehow PDP is unworkable unless it is and therefore might be de-valued.
>Let's face it; would students take an exam or write an essay if it wasn't
>assessed or they didn't receive feedback? I see few students that would
>voluntary do any of these things without anything in return.
>
>Regards
>
>David Thompson
>Progress Files Development Officer
>Aston University
>
>At 16:15 26/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>>This issue of student engagement only if assessed and/or accredited
>>seems to be a very often recurring theme in PDP debate.
>>
>>Does anyone have substantial experience of school- or student-age learners
>>being so motivated by PDP provision that the majority engage without their
>>being required to do so in any way? If not, what do readers think are
>>promising
>>ways of working towards achieving this?
>>
>>One reason I think this is really important is that without this kind of
>>intrinsic
>>motivation, PDP is unlikely to reach the "excluded" or disadvantaged people
>>who are not in education (or employment), thus risking widening the
>>"digital divide".
>>
>>Simon
>>
>>At 14:26 2005-02-25, Arti Kumar wrote:
>>>Adding to this debate, I would like to present the view our university
>>>has adopted: that students (and indeed staff) do not seriously engage
>>>with PDP unless it is an accredited and assessed part of the curriculum.
>>> We have core modules which integrate Personal, Professional and
>>>Academic Development in most subject fields at Levels 1 and 2, and are
>>>currently developing career-related elements linked to the final year
>>>project or dissertation.
>>
>>--
>>Simon Grant, of North-West England
>>http://www.simongrant.org/home.html
>>Information Systems Strategist
>>http://www.inst.co.uk/
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